Sunday, March 17, 2013

Vintagey "Chocolate" and Rose Egg

Faux Vintage Chocolate Egg

Of course it’s no secret that I love chocolate, and this time of year, chocolate eggs abound. This one is not edible but still delicious I think!

For this project you will need:
  • 6” plastic egg
  • Tissue paper ( not fancy, whatever comes in a bag when you buy something at the store)
  • Mod Podge
  • Acrylic craft paints ( I used a dark umber and Martha Stewart Glitter paint in “Brownstone”
  • Embellishments ( I used a scrapbook border by K&Co )
Plastic Egg

I first shared this technique in this post: Twine and Tissue Paper Egg. Tear your tissue paper into small pieces, apply to your egg using Mod Podge. Cover all over and let dry. Then paint with you choice of colors.
Martha Stewart Brownstone Glitter Paint

I like the unevenness and texture of the tissue paper. I applied one coat of the plain acrylic paint and three of the glitter paint.

Once my paint was dry, I applied a decorative scrapbook border and sealed it with some more Mod Podge.

Chocolate Rose Egg

I had some paper roses in my embellishment stash and decided to hot glue those to the top of my egg at an angle.
Crepe Paper Grass
While I was waiting for my Mod Podged border to dry, I  cut a length of  crepe paper streamer ( a roll from the $1 goes a long way!), folded it in half then in half again and cut strips of it and plopped them in an ice cream dish I found at Crate and Barrel for $1.95.

Vintage Chocolate Egg

9 comments:

Susan said...

How creative, the egg is ! It looks real and ready to eat!

Unknown said...

Beautiful! And it does look like a real chocolate egg too!

Deneen@dreaming-n-color said...

Love this! It came out great. Love something different!!!

Unknown said...

OMG Carol I LOVE this! I am so going to make one! Looks like you could take a big bite of it. Hugs,
~Deb~
CDAC DT Member
A Look Through My Eyes

Mary Palumbo Collings said...

Nicely done, looks lovely!

Unknown said...

Oh my! This looks good enough to eat!!

Vintage Street Designs said...

Absolutely adorable!!! LOVE your egg and your blog! So glad I hopped over from Well Crafted Wednesdays. I'm happy to be be your newest follower. Would love to have you stop by for a visit. Happy Crafting ~ Judy

lindalou said...

This is so cute and what a great use for those leftover plastic eggs.

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